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Cano.

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Cano.
Principal English Translation: 

the last name of a Spaniard who participated in the seizure of power in Tenochtitlan, Juan Cano; he married doña Isabel de Moteuczoma; they had three children, Pedro Cano, Gonzalo Cano, and doña Isabel de Jesús Cano, the latter became a nun; Gonzalo had a son named don Juan Cano de Moteuczoma, who had a son named don Diego de Moteuczoma, a commander in the Order of Santiago; don Diego married a daughter of Clemente Valdés. (all according to Chimalpahin) Such genealogies link pre-contact with Spanish colonial times.

(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 84–85.